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Jacques Lacan: top 100 quotes
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Life (n.) is the totality of forces that resist death.
Truth (n.) is not beautiful and it is not necessarily beneficial to learn the truth.
Truth (n.) is capable, via art, of revealing its own fictive arrangement.
Truth (n.) offers herself to her lovers most truly in hiding.
Truth (n.) is a register that is distinct from exactitude, situated at the very foundation of intersubjectivity.
The Truth (n.) is always new, and if it is to be true, it has to be new. As such, what truth says is not said in quite the same way when everyday discourse repeats it.
Truth (n.) is always truth about desire.
Truth (n.) is emergent in language. It is, along with false, nothing prior to speech. Truth hollows its way into the real thanks to the dimension of speech.
Truth (n.) is grounded in a fictive arrangement that sometimes reveals itself.
Truth (n.) is not something that awaits in some preformed state of fullness, to be revealed to the analysand by the analyst... on the contrary, it is gradually constructed in the dialectical movement of the treatment itself.
Truth (n.) is not the opposite of deception, rather it is inscribed in the attempted deceptions of the analysand's speech. It is the analyst's role is to reveal the truth, to understand that 'in trying to deceive me you are telling the truth'.
Truth (n.) is not universal but particular to each subject 'my truth' 'your truth'. ..
Truth (n.) is that whereby, it is in the hiding that it offers itself to lovers most truly.
Language (n.) is a dangerous gift. It offers itself to our use free of charge but once we accept it, it colonizes us.
Language (n.) is coming in only one sort: Concrete language (english or French for instance) which people talk.The first thing to start in this context is that there is no meta-language.
Language (n.) turns us from organisms into subjects, but the language that permits all this is irretrievably Other.
Anxiety (n.) is a topological problem. It puts my being-there in question. Rather than opening me to an existential question of who or what I am, if forces upon me a question of where I am.
Anxiety (n.) is terrible precisely because it is not focused on a particular object but revolves around an absence.
Anxiety (n.) is the only emotion that does not deceive.
Anxiety (n.) is the cause of doubt. Thus, the true meaning of causality should be looked for in the phenomenon of anxiety.
Being (n.) is precisely to be found in the failure of representation in the many things it misses.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is a mode of thought that is more 'real' the closer we get to it being funny.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is concerned with retaining whatever is significant, without always knowing what to do with it.
Psychoanalysis (n.) is grounded in the principle that nobody understands anything of what happens.
Interpretation (n.) is nothing but the unconscious itself. It is the discrepancy between the wanting-to-say-of-mine and the wanting-to-say-of-the-signifier.
Trauma (n.) is the non-assimilated experience that resists symbolization and language.
Forgetting (n.) is possible, but often that same object that is forgotten does not forget your.